Relational Somatic Healing Staff

Shirley Dvir, MFT # 44258

Shirley Dvir, MFT # 44258

shirleydvir@hotmail.com

Shirley is the founder and lead teacher of Relational Somatic Healing and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 44258). She is currently earning a PhD at California Institute for Integral Studies in Somatic Psychology and is writing her dissertation on the use of safe touch in psychotherapy. She earned an MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and a BA in Social Work from Haifa University in Israel. For over 10 years she taught as a Certified Hakomi Teacher at the Hakomi Institute of California, John F. Kennedy University, California Institute for Integral Studies, and Shiluv Center in Tivon, Israel. She has also supervised associates pursuing MFT licensure and currently mentors licensed practitioners. Shirley has been practicing psychotherapy since 1997 in agencies and private practice, seeing families, children, couples, and individuals. She has training in psychodynamic work, attachment, EMDR, Sensorimotor Trauma Therapy, the Enneagram, family therapy, CranioSacral Therapy and Body Mind Centering (Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen). Her main work today focuses on healing relational wounds with safe embodied touch. Her spiritual practice and meditation support how she holds her work and her teaching. She has a private practice based in Berkeley, CA

 
Eugenia Guidi, MFT # 88614

Eugenia Guidi, MFT # 88614

eugeniaguidimft@gmail.com

Eugenia is a teacher of Relational Somatic Healing. She brings to this work a deep love for people, the intelligence of our inborn ability to heal, and the link between depth healing and healing the world (Tikun Olam). She is trained as a Somatic Marriage and Family Therapist, and has worked in private practice, non-profit and school based settings.  She is trained in Hakomi, Craniosacral Therapy, Body Mind Centering, trauma and attachment healing, as well as anti-racist, disability justice, gender liberation and youth empowerment work.  She has had a private practice at Anam Cara Therapy Center in Berkeley since 2012, where she sees both adults and adolescents.

Erica Berman, LMFT #125492

Erica Berman, LMFT #125492

somatictherapywitherica@ericaelenaberman.com

Office in Oakland, CA 

Erica is faculty at Relational Somatic Healing. She is a queer/LBGT somatic psychotherapist who focuses on issues of abandonment, anxiety, grief, trauma, holistic and spiritual health. She is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy University Somatic Psychotherapy Masters program, and is a certified ecotherapist through the Earth Body Institute. She is a student of Hakomi method, Theta Healing, and EMDR. She is grounded in a history of movement organizing, and holds an anti-oppression, intersectional lens. Her Jew (witch) spiritual practice, as well as the tenets of Buddhism are deeply intertwined with her work as a somatic healer. She has a private psychotherapy practice with Axis Mundi Center, and believes whole heartedly in the healing power of touch for deep systemic change.

 

Traci Uchida, LMFT # 104474

Traci Uchida, LMFT # 104474

 
 
925-289-8633 (text ok)
 
Office in Oakland, CA
 
Traci is a teacher in training of relational somatic healing. Her approach is holistic and transpersonal, meaning she looks at and works with all aspects of your being – mind, body, soul, and spirit. She has had a lot of somatic training and mentoring in the Hakomi tradition, which is an experiential and mindfulness-based, body-centered approach to therapy. Her touch therapy work blends together craniosacral work, soul retrieval, past-life regression, intuitive reading, somatic body work, and energy medicine all into one. She practices relational somatic healing, and is also a Reiki practitioner.
 
Lu Jackson LMFT  # 131978

Lu Jackson LMFT # 131978

 
 
Office in Oakland, CA
 
 
Lu is a teacher in training of Relational Somatic Healing. She earned a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica in 2008 and a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University in 2019. Her area of specialization is Holistic Somatic Psychology. This means that she acknowledges that the mind, body, and spirit are impacted by our life experiences and that all of these aspects of ourselves must be engaged in the healing process. Through this work, she has found that she’s most passionate about supporting people with owning their power and creating the life they desire. People who work with her say that she is down to earth, nonjudgmental, and warm. When she’s not seeing clients, you’ll find her working on her new podcast, cooking, dancing, or painting.
 
Jacki Hull, LMFT 92776

Jacki Hull, LMFT 92776

 
Jacki is a teacher at Relational Somatic Healing. She is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT 92776) with a Masters in Counseling from The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. As a transpersonal psychotherapist, she includes the mind, body, soul and beyond. Jacki is trained in Relational Somatic Healing, Somatic Therapy from Hakomi, EMDR and Ketamine Assisted Therapy, from Polaris Insight Center and Sage Institute. Today her work focuses on the therapeutic relationship and embodied, relational touch to address developmental trauma & attachment ruptures, (which can manifest as anxieties, depression, isolation, relational issues and physical ailments). She is also passionate about working with those affected by cancer, grief and loss. Jacki has been in private practice since 2011. Her practice is in San Francisco and online. Jacki’s dedication is to remain in authenticity while helping others feel safe and secure enough to allow in more love, connection and freedom.

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